ante
noun
a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
had anted
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past perfectof ante.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association had anted up some $2,500 in dollars for the exclusive rights to Shirley May's byline and to feature picture coverage.
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His Alleghany Corp. had lent $7,500,000; Alleghany's President Allan P. Kirby had anted up another $5,000,000, while a banking syndicate headed by Cleveland's Central National Bank had put up the rest.
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In attendance were some of the 43 limited partners who had anted up $221 million in capital for his major arbitrage fund, Ivan F. Boesky & Co.
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Strongly they implied that Nominee Roosevelt had anted out of turn, anticipating the Republican Nominee's first square-off at the farm issue scheduled to be delivered at Des Moines 48 hours later.
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Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans both in cash and in style.
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